Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein)
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281. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the detail of the 11,300 job approvals and 139 new investments supported by the IDA Ireland in the first six months of 2018, by county in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26490/18]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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IDA Ireland has recently reported very strong mid-year results and expects that investments approved in the first half of 2018 will lead to the creation of over 11,300 jobs as companies roll out their plans over the coming months and years. This compares with 11,000 job approvals over the same period in 2017. There were 139 projects won in the first six months of the year – compared with 114 in the first half of 2017. The technology, financial services and pharmaceuticals sectors performed particularly strongly and I am pleased to say that there were 51 regional investments in the first half of this year also. 

Details of the new investments announced by foreign direct investment companies (FDI) for the first half of 2018 are contained in the following table. However, it should be noted that not all companies choose to announce their new projects, so all 11,300 job approvals and 139 investments will not be reflected in this table.  

The 2019 Annual Employment Survey will be carried out by my Department in November and will capture FDI jobs created in 2018.

IDA Ireland: List of announced investments in 2018